Joelle J’Sean ’JoJo’ Clesca, 19, was shot and killed inside a Wingstop on Beatties Ford Road in northwest Charlotte on the evening of October 12, 2025. Police were called just after 7 p.m.; officers arrived to find a male victim dead from gunshot wounds and later identified him as Joelle Clesca.

In the days after the killing, three 20-year-olds were arrested and charged in connection with the slaying. On October 14 Santario Lavarius Turner was booked on first-degree murder and felony conspiracy; the next day Dandre Chisholm was booked on first-degree murder. Local reports also named Justin Jones as a third person taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. A Charlotte funeral home obituary recorded Joelle’s date of death as October 12, 2025, and friends, family and neighbors held a vigil near the restaurant in the days that followed.

Does anyone have information about Joelle, the night of October 12, or the events at the Wingstop that evening?